Here’s one reader’s view from the soapbox on the iApps — what do you think? Promising first tries? More work needed? Already dumping your third-party apps for iApps? -PK

Being the bleeding edge fool that I am, I am always downloading the latest and greatest stuff to play with. Now that Apple seems to be giving Micro$oft a run for it’s money, it looks like I might soon be able to eradicate the Evil Empire from my hard drive and have integrated applications. However, Apple, you’re not quite there. No, I don’t mean Appleworks doesn’t quite match up to Office. I’m talking about the iApps and Mail. Click ‘read more’ for the full story.